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Born | Jacqueline Laura Hoffman November 29, 1960 Queens, New York City, U.S. |
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Years active | 1992–present |
Spouse | Steve Smyth |
Jacqueline Laura Hoffman (born November 29, 1960) is an American actress, singer, and comedian known for her one-woman shows of Jewish-themed original songs and monologues. [1] She is a veteran of Chicago's famed The Second City comedy improv group. [2]
Hoffman was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award for her role as Mamacita in the miniseries Feud (2017).
Hoffman won the Joseph Jefferson Award, Chicago's venerable theatre award, during her eight-year tenure with the Second City troupe. [2] She starred in the following solo comedy performances: "If You Call This Living", "The Kvetching Continues", "Jackie Hoffman's Hanukkah", "A Chanukah Charol", "Jackie's Kosher Khristmas", and "Jackie's Valentine's Day Massacre", among others. Hoffman also joined the three-woman comic team behind "The J.A.P. Show, Jewish American Princesses of Comedy", at the Actors' Temple in April 2007.[ citation needed ]
She performed numerous roles in David and Amy Sedaris's 2001 comic play, The Book of Liz, winning an Obie Award. Her other theatrical credits include The Sisters Rosensweig , Straightjacket, Incident at Cobbler's Knob, and One Woman Shoe, for which she won a Jeff Award. In addition, she regularly performs at Joe's Pub in one-woman concerts. [3]
In 2002, Hoffman was cast in the musical Hairspray on Broadway, playing the roles of Prudy Pingleton, Gym Teacher, Matron and Denizen of Baltimore. She won the 2003 Theatre World Award for her performance. [2] She co-starred as Calliope, muse of epic poetry, in the rock musical Xanadu on Broadway, from July 2007 to September 2008. [4] Hoffman starred as Grandmama in the Broadway musical The Addams Family , which opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 8, 2010 and closed on December 31, 2011. In 2010, she also parodied Lady Gaga's hit-single, Alejandro. She played Madame Dilly and other roles in the 2014 Broadway revival of On the Town until the show closed in September 2015. She played Mrs. Teavee in the Broadway production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , which opened on April 23, 2017 and closed January 14, 2018. In the summer of 2018, she joined the cast of the National Yiddish Theatre's production of Fidler Afn Dakh as Yente the matchmaker.
In 2020, Hoffman appeared as Nicky in the musical podcast, Propaganda! [5]
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Hoffman has acted in the movies Kissing Jessica Stein , Mo' Money , Garden State , Down , Queer Duck: The Movie , Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde , and A Dirty Shame , and was the voice of the Water Cooler in Robots .
In addition to cameoing on the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm , she has appeared in many series, including Difficult People , Strangers with Candy , Hope and Faith , Ed , Starved , Cosby , 30 Rock , One Life to Live , The Other Two , Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and was the voice of Dilmom on Dilbert .
Hoffman provided the voice of "Mary Phillips, the Talk Radio host", in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas . Despite her frequent stage banter on her dislike of children, Hoffman did a surprising turn as the voices of the Gate to Fairy-tale Land and the Witch's Magic Wand in the Dora the Explorer movie, Dora's Fairytale Adventure. She has also been a frequent guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien .
In 2007 she was featured in the film Making Trouble, a tribute to female Jewish comedians, produced by the Jewish Women's Archive. [6] In 2011, Hoffman appeared as a cameo in The Sitter as Mrs. Sapperstein. In 2012, she has had a recurring role in The New Normal . She appeared in a cameo role in the Oscar-winning movie Birdman in 2014.
In 2017, she starred in the first season of the FX series entitled Feud: Bette and Joan in the role of Joan Crawford's housekeeper, Mamacita, [7] for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. [8]
In 2021–2023, she appeared in the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building as supporting character Uma Heller, an amusingly caustic neighbor of the show's principal characters. [9]
In 2023, Hoffman portrayed the role of Assistant Principal McGee in the 10-episode Paramount+ series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies .
Jackie Hoffman can be heard on the original Broadway cast recordings of Hairspray , Xanadu , The Addams Family , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , the revival Broadway cast recording of On the Town , and the PS Classics' recording of Jackie Hoffman: Live at Joe's Pub released Fall 2008. [10] She also appears on Scott Alan's CD, Dreaming Wide Awake, in a duet with Carly Jibson.[ citation needed ]
Hoffman was born in Queens, New York. She is friends with Stephen Colbert and his wife Evelyn McGee-Colbert, jokingly making a scene when she did not catch Evelyn's bouquet at the couple's 1993 wedding. [11]
At age 46, during the run of her show Regrets Only, she was hospitalized for a hysterectomy to remove a benign tumor. She was back in three weeks, with a cot backstage for whenever she was not singing or talking. [4]
She is married to jazz trumpeter Steve Smyth. [12]
Year | Play | Role | Theatre |
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1995 | One Woman Shoe | Jill | La Mama E.T.C., Off-Off-Broadway [13] |
1997 | Incident at Cobbler's Knob | Squirrel | Lincoln Center Festival [14] |
2000 | Straight Jacket | Jerry | Playhouse 91, Off-Broadway |
2001 | The Book of Liz | Sister Constance Butterworth et al. | Greenwich House Theater, Off-Broadway [15] |
2002–2004 | Hairspray | Prudy Pingleton et al. | Neil Simon Theatre, Broadway |
2006 | The Sisters Rosensweig | Gorgeous Teitelbaum | Old Globe Theatre, Regional |
2006–2007 | Regrets Only | Myra Kesselman | New York City Center Stage I, Off-Broadway |
2007–2008 | Xanadu | Calliope/Aphrodite | Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway |
2009–2011 | The Addams Family | Grandma | Oriental-Ford Center for the Arts, Chicago Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway |
2012 | Chicago | Matron "Mama" Morton | The Muny, Regional |
2014–2015 | On the Town | Maude P. Dilly et al. | Lyric Theatre, Broadway |
2015–2016 | Once Upon a Mattress | Princess Winnifred | Abrons Arts Center, Off-Broadway |
2017–2018 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Mrs. Teavee | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway |
2018–2020 | Fidler Afn Dakh | Yente | Edmond J. Safra Hall/Stage 42, Off-Broadway |
2021 | Fairycakes | Moth | Greenwich House Theater, Off-Broadway |
2022 | The Tattooed Lady | Ida Gibson | Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Regional |
Year | Film | Role |
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1992 | Mo' Money | Jill |
2001 | Kissing Jessica Stein | Joan |
2001 | The Shaft | Journalist #3 (Marie-Anne Holland) |
2003 | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Dog Spa Receptionist |
2004 | Garden State | Aunt Sylvia Largeman |
2004 | A Dirty Shame | Dora |
2005 | Robots | Water Cooler (voice) |
2006 | Queer Duck: The Movie | Lola Buzzard (voice) |
2008 | The Entrepreneurs | Janet |
2009 | How to Seduce Difficult Women | Book Publisher |
2010 | The Extra Man | Pushy Woman |
2011 | The Sitter | Mrs. Sapperstein |
2014 | Birdman | Lady on Balcony (Mary) |
2014 | 5 Flights Up | "Eh" Lady |
2015 | Decay | Neighbor |
2019 | The Social Ones | Amanda |
2020 | Shiva Baby | Susan |
2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Ma |
2023 | A Good Person | Belinda |
2023 | You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah | Irene |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1993 | Flying Blind | Sales Clerk | Episode: "Unforgiving" |
1995 | Freaky Friday | Coach Tyser | TV movie |
1996–1997 | Doug | (voice) | 26 episodes |
1998 | Soul Man | Rope Hoffman | Episode: "The Stan Plan" |
1998–2001 | PB&J Otter | Connie Crane (voice) | 15 episodes |
1999–2000 | Dilbert | Dilmom (voice) | 29 episodes |
2000 | Strangers with Candy | Ms. Plog | Episode: "A Price Too High for Riches" |
2001 | Ed | Cookie Mom #2 | Episode: "The New World" |
2003–2004 | Dora the Explorer | Various voices | 2 episodes |
2004 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Rhonda | Episode: "Ben's Birthday Party" |
2004 | Hope & Faith | Bobbi | Episode: "Queer as Hope" |
2005 | Starved | Group Leader | 5 episodes |
2007 | As the World Turns | Miranda | Episode #1.13124 |
2009 | 30 Rock | Rochelle Gaulke | Episode: "The Funcooker" |
2009 | One Life to Live | Eunice Burns | 5 episodes |
2010 | Late Show with David Letterman | Grandmama Addams | Episode #17.117 |
2012 | Raising Hope | Sylvia Barnes | Episode: "I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back" |
2012 | Submissions Only | Auditioner #2 | Episode: "Another Interruption" |
2012 | Melissa & Joey | Betty Mueller | Episode: "Wherefore Art Thou Lennox" |
2012–2013 | The New Normal | Frances | 4 episodes |
2013 | Inside Amy Schumer | Psychic Medium | Episode: "Terrible People" |
2013 | The Good Wife | Judge Maria Felletti | Episode: "The Next Month" |
2013 | High School USA! | Tamar (voice) | 2 episodes |
2014 | The Michael J. Fox Show | Pageant Coordinator | Episode: "Sochi" |
2015 | Girls | Shanaz Mensusen | Episode: "Tad & Loreen & Avi & Shanaz" |
2015–2017 | Difficult People | Rucchel Epstein | 3 episodes |
2016 | American Dad! | Bird Cage Lady / City Councilwoman (voice) | Episode: "Roots" |
2016 | Elementary | Female Activist | Episode: "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell" |
2016 | Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life | Esther | 2 episodes |
2017 | Feud: Bette and Joan | Mamacita | 8 episodes Primetime Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie |
2017–2020 | At Home with Amy Sedaris | Various | 3 episodes |
2019 | The Other Two | Lorraine | Episode: "Chase Goes to a High School Dance" |
2019–2020 | The Politician | Sherry Dougal | 6 episodes |
2021 | The Bite | Duchess Pavlona | 2 episodes |
2021–present | Only Murders in the Building | Uma Heller | 11 episodes |
2022 | Search Party | Velma | Episode: "Kings" |
2022 | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | Gitta | 3 episodes |
2023 | Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies | Asst. Principal McGee | 10 episodes |
2024 | Night Court | Linda | Episode: "Form Fetish" |
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Evelyn (laughing w/Stephen): She missed it, and threw herself on the ground. And did a whole big thing... my parents' friends did not know she was an actress, and they thought she was really distraught.